Legal Opinion
Richard Allen Nagler and Donna Diane Nagler v. United States Steel Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 30, 1973No. 72-1601PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CASTLE, Senior Circuit Judge.
A jury verdict awarded plaintiff Richard Allen Nagler $1,030,000.00 for injuries sustained while he was working in defendant’s steel mill. His wife was awarded $150,000.00 for loss of consortium. The United States Steel Corporation prosecutes this appeal contesting its liability for plaintiffs’ damages.
As part of its operations at Gary, Indiana, United States Steel operates a 46" Slab Mill, where ingots of assorted sizes are heated in furnaces called soaking pits to approximately 2350° before being rolled out into variously-shaped slabs. The mill contains about…
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